Shannon DowdNiagara University | NU · College of Arts and Sciences
Shannon Dowd
Doctor of Philosophy
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Introduction
My research and teaching focus on 20th and 21st century Latin American culture. I'm especially interested in how literature and film engage philosophy and politics. Areas of interest include continental philosophy, aesthetics, political theory, critical theory, and translation studies.
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Toxins lurk in the soy fields around a small Argentine town in Samanta Schweblin’s 2014 novel Distancia de rescate. On the surface, Schweblin’s novel appears to use supernatural phenomena to criticize industrial soy production and its use of toxic herbicides. Current criticism, in turn, sees the novel as an extension of the Latin American fantastic...
Between 2013 and 2017, a heated debate took place online and in print about US poet Charles Olson’s time in Mexico. Mexican poet and critic Heriberto Yépez criticized Olson for misunderstanding and exploiting the Maya, while a group of US-based poets, including Amiri Baraka, defended Olson. This article examines what came to be called the Olson Aff...
Recent work in Latin American literary and cultural studies argues that politics has undergone a fundamental shift under globalization and now consists of a prolonged suspension of sovereignty or interregnum. This article examines periods of interregnum in twentieth and twenty-first century Argentina as portrayed in Hernán Ronsino's Pampas Trilogy...
Unable to come to an agreement on where the border lay, Bolivia and Paraguay sought to define the boundaries of the northern Chaco in the 1932–1935 Chaco War. This article shows that the Chaco is a symptomatic case of the difficulty of defining borders and representing them textually. In particular, through an examination of classic Chaco War texts...
This article analyzes the key terms in the ongoing sovereignty debate over the Falklands/Malvinas Islands through a reading of Rodolfo Enrique Fogwill's classic novel Los pichiciegos: Visiones de una batalla subterránea. I argue against critical interpretations of the novel as anti-war and counter-foundational, finding that the novel reproduces sov...
